QFX 8 Revision History

This page documents the changes, additions and bug fixes made to QFX 8 since it was first released. To get complete information on other changes in your version of QFX, see What's New! in the QFX Help menu.

8.11

• Implement user-defined bitmaps for any button in the main Toolbar.

8.10

• For images that are rotated automatically when opened, the image name displayed at the top of the edit window will be the same as the original image. Also, there will be no warning message if the edit window is closed before any edits are made to it.
• Implement the "-r" command line option.

8.09

• Implement 'Between' alignment option for Exact spacing in the Distribute Objects dialog. This option lets you specify the exact spacing between distributed objects.
• Fix problem that could cause a program crash if the EditSelect command were used with one or more bitmap objects in the layout and the Index= argument was '0' and the Name= argument was blank.

8.08

• Implement selecting the width and color of the border printed around images in the Page Setup dialog.
• Improve the automatic spacing of text characters.

8.07

• Add the Color Mixer method to the Monochrome Effect. This feature lets you select the exact amount of each color that is mixed to create the monochrome conversion and can simulate the effect of using color filters with black and white film.
• Fix problem with images opened in Full Screen view causing a program crash when closed.
• Fix problem where Paint brush icons were not erased when the keyboard was used to scroll window.
• Fix problem where some Format plug-ins would not show up in the Save and Save As dialogs.
• Fix problem where cursor coordinates were not displayed correctly in the Densitometer in Draw mode if either the top or bottom color values display were active.

8.06

• Fix problem with not being able to create text with the ObjText command for special characters and symbols like the Copyright character.
• Fix problem where these same characters could not be used in Form controls
• Fix so changing folders or file types in the Thumbnails dialog now cancels thumbnail creation immediately and displays new set of thumbnails.
• Fix so the DPI of the current image is copied to the system clipboard and the DPI is maintained when copying to or from either clipboard or loading or saving clipboard images.

8.05

• Add EditSelect Queue command for selecting objects by index or name.
• Add LayersEdit Queue command for making edits to Layers toolbox.
• Add FrameMode= and FrameScale= parameters to PreferencesObjects Queue command for setting the Scale/Rotate mode of the Frame tool.
• Add Name= parameter to EditObjectProperties Queue command for setting the user-defined name of an object.
• Add the following Queue Global Variables:
  $ObjectPolyPoints, $SystemDate, $SystemTime, $ScreenWidth, $ScreenHeight, $ApplicationWidth, $ApplicationHeight, $ApplicationLocX, $ApplicationLocY, $ApplicationPath, $ApplicationVersion, $LayersCount, $ObjectLayerIx, $ObjectName
• Add the following Queue Functions:
  PixelToDlgUX(), PixelToDlgUY(), DlgUToPixelX(), DlgUToPixelY() PixelToAI(), AiToPixel(), PixelToWorld(), WorldToPixel(), WorldToAi(), AiToWorld()

8.04

• Do not count parent objects when counting objects for Image Information.
• Include OS name in program name displayed in main window title.
• Fix problem with only one axis of the Frame Tool snapping when resizing with constrained proportion enabled.

8.03

• Fix problem that caused crashes when using the Lasso with multi-processor systems.
• Improve speed when loading large Queue files into Current Queue edit window.

8.02

• Fix so "FileSave" and "FileSaveAs" Queue commands work correctly with plug-ins.
• Disable Quick Tips while in Open/Save common dialogs to support utilities that interact with these common dialogs such as Access Folders by www.shelltoys.com.

8.01

• Implement support for multi-monitor systems. Toolboxes and dialogs will now restore to their last positions regardless of which monitor they were last on and the QFX application window can be extended across multiple monitors.
• Undo now works correctly after changes are made to Text Options in the Object Properties dialog with one or more text objects selected. 
• Wildcards (*,?) will not be expanded in Prog= parameter argument to the ExecUser Queue command so it can be used to issue command processor commands re: 
      ExecUser Prog="cmd.exe /c xcopy d:\images\*.jpg e:\archive" 
• If [ERROR] Process=No option is selected, errors in expanding wildcards will not put up warning message nor stop the Queue from executing. 

8.00

• First release of QFX 8.